There are more bands/people getting added to Firefly. Beck was one but in 2 weeks there will be more.

Taking a page out of the Bonnaroo book isn't a bad idea when you expand into a 4 day festival for the first time. Firefly is going about it right, I must say. If a few bands that I particularly love are added to Firefly, it's going to make it a very tough decision between it and Roo.

Just bought tickets to go see the revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Neil Patrick Harris, and while that may not be exciting for any of you, I've personally waited forever for this to happen, so there

There are more bands/people getting added to Firefly. Beck was one but in 2 weeks there will be more.

Hangout is basically adding an extra day before, it was supposed to just be Girl Talk+meh as a pre party but it's looking like a solid extra day now. Luckily we had planned to get down there a day early, and it's only an extra $30 for the "pre party".

Bonnaroo announced their lineup. I don't know if any of you have seen it yet, but it's further evidence that it's by far and away the best big festival in this hemisphere. I'm not a huge fan of the headliners besides Jack White, but the "undercard" is as stacked as it gets...

was just about to mention it. i'm really, really underwhelmed. there are some awesome bands i'd love to see, but there is so much crap at that festival this year.

I mean, Kanye isn't what I'm looking for, and there's a lot of dubstep that I wouldn't see, but Bonnaroo is big enough that I won't see or hear the music I don't want to. It's one of the great things about that place, no matter what your taste in music, you can listen to exactly what you want to. It's a little light on hip-hop this year from the looks of it, but that is the only shallow genre in this pool of music.

All big festivals have what we would consider crap, because they draw from so many different musical angles, and we don't like all of it, but no other festival has anywhere near the amount and quality of music that I DO want to see. Firefly was the best fest until last night, and even that only has about half of the music that Bonnaroo has that I want to see, and unlike Coachella, you don't have short sets or as many scheduling conflicts to worry about like with most festivals. Sundays are always jam packed at Roo, and there are tough decisions to be made, but with festivals, there is so much good music that you want to see, your more worried about deciding on your "first world problem" choice than you are the music you don't want anything to do with.

I mean, Kanye isn't what I'm looking for, and there's a lot of dubstep that I wouldn't see, but Bonnaroo is big enough that I won't see or hear the music I don't want to. It's one of the great things about that place, no matter what your taste in music, you can listen to exactly what you want to. It's a little light on hip-hop this year from the looks of it, but that is the only shallow genre in this pool of music.

All big festivals have what we would consider crap, because they draw from so many different musical angles, and we don't like all of it, but no other festival has anywhere near the amount and quality of music that I DO want to see. Firefly was the best fest until last night, and even that only has about half of the music that Bonnaroo has that I want to see, and unlike Coachella, you don't have short sets or as many scheduling conflicts to worry about like with most festivals. Sundays are always jam packed at Roo, and there are tough decisions to be made, but with festivals, there is so much good music that you want to see, your more worried about deciding on your "first world problem" choice than you are the music you don't want anything to do with.

*shrug* maybe. i'll have to wait till i see the schedules, but as of now, the main headliners are garbage. elton john? seriously?

there are some smaller groups i'd want to see, but those are usually the ones where i'd get screwed on timing anyways.

i'm just really disappointed in the 'big' names. there are maybe ten bands in the top half of their lineup i'd have any interest in, and even then, probably 5 of them would be groups i'd see just because i was there and nothing else of value was going on, and not because i wanted to go out of my way to see them.

Since I can't share a picture of the lineup here, for some reason, I'm going to go through the list of tunes that I would like to see at Roo that are there this year.

I will say this, beforehand, I'm a little biased because Roo has 4 of my favorite groups/musicians playing there this year, so I'm naturally a little biased toward this lineup, but even without those acts, this lineup is unbelievable.

*shrug* maybe. i'll have to wait till i see the schedules, but as of now, the main headliners are garbage. elton john? seriously?

there are some smaller groups i'd want to see, but those are usually the ones where i'd get screwed on timing anyways.

i'm just really disappointed in the 'big' names. there are maybe ten bands in the top half of their lineup i'd have any interest in, and even then, probably 5 of them would be groups i'd see just because i was there and nothing else of value was going on, and not because i wanted to go out of my way to see them.

You see, I've got nothing against Elton John, and I would like to see him, but there are enough lower level acts that I really like that there is a chance I may be cutting his set short in favor of a smaller act. That's another thing that's great about Roo, they do a good job of scheduling the smaller acts with the headliners that people would actually want to see since they don't want the headliner. They do it because it increases food and merch sales, to have as many people in there as possible, but it works in favor of the fans, too.

I've never gone to Bonnaroo for the big names, I was actually telling my friend that Jack White is probably my favorite headliner in the past three years (yes, above McCartney, even RHCP is above McCartney for me). I look at the headliners more as a bonus in addition to all the music I'm going to see in the tents and at the smaller stages. I go to Bonnaroo for the music that isn't at the top of the billing, and if there's stuff there I like at the top, that's just more to love.